4月，著名电视节目主持人毕福剑的一段视频在网上流传。在视频中，他以文革时期的京剧剧目调侃国共内战，并夹杂了他个人对毛泽东和共产党的批评。尽管政府竭力阻止，这则视频仍广为流传，更有评论支持毕福剑的意见并捍卫他的言论自由。
Federal, state and local government job cutbacks are slowing. More than 250,000 workers at all levels of government lost jobs last year. This year, so far, about 20,000 have gained jobs. Worries about the nation's debt and deficits likely will keep a lid on government spending and investments, economists say, but any jumps in, say, infrastructure spending would create jobs. At the least, government will be less of a drag.[qh]
根据乔治亚工学院2014年的一项研究，运动确实可以开发智力，即使你不喜欢举重训练或者不喜欢健身馆的环境，想改用吃坚果的方式提高记忆力，通过锻炼提高记忆力其实只需要20分钟。在这项实验中，研究人员要求参与者进行20分钟的高强度训练，他们发现，仅仅20分钟就可以让年轻人的“事件记忆”能力（也叫长期记忆力）提高10%。
The 54-year-old has already said he wants Bain to be recognised as a go-to provider of digital expertise. The question is whether this will be achieved through acquisitions, poaching teams or retraining the existing workforce.